Guurluth HM question

I was looking through some of the public prancing turtle parses, and noticed that some of the top people dont have a dps drop during orb phase. In general, as NB/SIN I try to never let my fs fall off of the boss, but this can be hard since the two turn away mechanics are 10 sec, which is the length of fs.

Are you guys "cheating" the mechanic and sneaking in damage? If so, any tips on how to optimize this. Even a single death on that fight is essentially a wipe, so there is a fine line between risk and reward.

I was looking through some of the public prancing turtle parses, and noticed that some of the top people dont have a dps drop during orb phase. In general, as NB/SIN I try to never let my fs fall off of the boss, but this can be hard since the two turn away mechanics are 10 sec, which is the length of fs.

Are you guys "cheating" the mechanic and sneaking in damage? If so, any tips on how to optimize this. Even a single death on that fight is essentially a wipe, so there is a fine line between risk and reward.

The damage from the orb occurs every 2 seconds with the last tick at 0. This means you have 2 second windows which you can attack facing Guurloth between each tick. This is how people get attacks in without dying.

The damage from the orb occurs every 2 seconds with the last tick at 0. This means you have 2 second windows which you can attack facing Guurloth between each tick. This is how people get attacks in without dying.

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First tick at 2 seconds and last at 10, so you dont have to turn around until its about to get to 2 seconds either. You can in theory fit in all globals if you hit at 0.1, 1.1, 2.1, etc seconds into the cast and lose no dps at all. But as you said, risk vs reward, don't be too risky because if you are you'll probably die and wipe the raid

I tend to lose probably 2-3 globals on every turn around rather than the 10 of people who turn the whole time

Also as a side note, I tend to do noticeably more dps as assassin than nb/sin since you can put dots on guurloth before target swapping, and it has a better target swap than nb/sin. So maybe give that a try at some point and see if it works better for you too (top parse 105k as assassin, and about 95-100k as nbsin or something)